YMMV / Pointless

• Aluminium Christmas Trees: A deciding head-to-head question was types of penguin, with alternating letters missed out of the names given. Both pairs only knew one, "Emperor," which the first pair gave. The second pair randomly guessed "Macaroni" as a joke as it seemed to fit one of the other answers. Not only do Macaroni Penguins exist, the answer was obscure enough to win the second pair the question and the game!
• Contested Sequel: The Australian version of this has divided Australian viewers, in spite of it being hyped up. Some fans enjoy the actual show, while others think of the hosts "lacking chemistry" and the feeling of friendship between each other, with no genuinely funny moments. Some people say it has been Christmas Rushed.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Richard Osman. Most people had no idea who he was before Pointless (he's been a writer and producer at Endemol for quite a while). Now he's famous enough that he got verified on Twitter before Alexander Armstrong (who has been famous for much longer), and a fair few contestants come on Pointless for the express purpose of meeting Richard. He was also a contestant on Series 2 of Taskmaster where he started the trend to invoke Loophole Abuse by other contestants, and he now hosts his own celebrity quiz show with his name in it; Richard Osman's House of Games. He's even got his own Creator page on this very wiki before Alexander did!
• First Installment Wins: The UK version has been on the air since 2009. Internationally, however, most iterations didn't go beyond 1 year, aside from the French Personne N'y Avait Pensé! ("Nobody Had Thought of That!"), which lasted a respectable 10 years (2011-2021). Even the planned US version didn't make it past the pilot stage. The Danish version Jo Færre, Jo Bedre ("The Fewer, The Better"), which started in 2019, is the only international version to still be producing new episodes.
• Newer Than They Think: On the 4 January 2018 episode, Aretha Franklin was an answer to a music question, and Richard's supplemental fact was that she was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Both he and Xander expressed surprise that it took so long. Neither seemed aware that the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame's first inductions were in 1986.
• Most Wonderful Sound:
  • The chord played when an answer is revealed to be pointless, especially so in the final round.
  • The "ping!" heard when the column descends past the red line.
  • The rarely heard Techno-esque OOMPH chime that accompanies a 100-point correct answer. It sounds ironically triumphant, even though the effect for the player is the same as giving an incorrect answer.
  • And the flurry of pizzicato strings heard as the stack of discs counts down to reveal the score for an answer.
• Shocking Moments: The 3 February 2015 episode, which featured in round 1 a tiebreak between three couples, all of whom had scored a total of 4. (The couple which had got through scored 3.)
• Unexpected Character: Michael Sheen was a contestant on a celebrity edition.

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